UPC 9780988986572 Humanitas: Readings in the Development of the Medical Humanities

ISBN 9780988986572 - Humanitas: Readings in the Development of the Medical Humanities

ISBN 9780988986572 Humanitas: Readings in the Development of the Medical Humanities

Description 9780988986572

This reader reprints critical essays published over the course of a 100-year history that grapple with the challenges of defining and justifying the presence of humanities instruction in medical education&46; It provides insights to some of the newer approaches that branch out from the familiar subjects of history and literature to include theater, art, poetry, and disability studies&46; With a comprehensive historiographical introduction as well as prefaces to each article, including new reflections by many of the original authors themselves, the volume enables reflection on how the diversity of disciplinary perspectives and multiplicity of theoretical frameworks relate to each other histor 9780988986572